A company's strategies define its future direction, specifying not only
target market positions for many years to come, but also the key
competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of
resources. Developing future strategies is an important and complex
task, which is the core issue in this book. After a short introduction
to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future
strategies is presented. This process is divided into eight steps, and
for each of these steps, detailed recommendations for problem-solving
are provided and illustrated through many concrete examples. The new
edition is improved.